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Index of Names
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Yberne    

F 733 Fruitful island (TundFr1)

Ydier    

P 234.5 (Bm) Single combat to avenge daughter’s dishonor (WCRPa)

Ydrogant    

D 2141 Storm produced by magic (HvNAp)
F 150.2 Entrance to other world guarded by monsters (or animals) (HvNAp)
G 100 Giant ogre Polyphemus (HvNAp)
G 512.1.2 Ogre decapitated (HvNAp)

Ylion    

F 772 Extraordinary tower. (KvWTK)

Ymelot    

T 104 Foreign king wages war to enforce demand for princess in marriage (KRot)

Ypomidon    

W 117 Boastfulness. (AlbJT)

Yrkane    

D 1812.3.3 Future revealed in dream (ReivB)
F 1041.21 Reactions to excessive grief (ReivB)
F 1041.21.7 Swooning from grief (ReivB)
H 218.0.1 Vindication by champion. Usually noble lady or king accused (ReivB)
H 412 Chastity tested by ordeal (ReivB)
K 2112 Woman slandered as adulteress (prostitute) [concubine] (ReivB)
P 52.2 (Li) Knight in service of a lady (ReivB)
T 11 Falling in love with person never seen (ReivB)
T 15 Love at first sight (ReivB)
T 24 The symptoms of love (ReivB)
T 24.2.1 Fainting away for love (or sexual desire) (ReivB)
T 34 Lovers meet at social gathering (ReivB)
T 35.2 Pavilion as lover’s rendezvous (ReivB)
T 52.4 Dowry given at marriage of daughter (ReivB)
T 57 Declaration of love (ReivB)
T 68 Princess offered as prize (ReivB)
T 131.1.2 Father’s consent to son’s (daughter’s) marriage necessary (ReivB)
T 135 Wedding ceremony (ReivB)
T 137.1 Advice to a parting bride (ReivB)
T 137.2 Bride and bridegroom conducted to bridal bed (ReivB)
T 160 Consummation of marriage (ReivB)
T 500 Conception and birth. (ReivB)
T 589 Childbirth – miscellaneous motifs (ReivB)

Ysachor    

H 1561.2 Single combat to prove valor (GoTK)
L 420 Overweening ambition punished (GoTK)
P 52 Knight jousts with all comers (GoTK)
P 310.5 Defeated enemy turns true friend (GoTK)

Ysare    

F 531.4.5.1 Giant with iron club [pole] as weapon (UvTRW)
F 531.5 Giants and men (UvTRW)
F 531.6.12.6 Giant slain by man (UvTRW)

Yseve    

K 1271 Amorous intrigue observed and exposed (WCRPa)
K 1510 Adulteress outwits husband (WCRPa)
K 1550 Husband outwits adulteress and paramour (WCRPa)
K 1550.1 Husband discovers wife’s adultery (WCRPa)
K 2210 Treacherous relatives (WCRPa)
P 231 Mother and son (WCRPa)
P 231.15 (G) Mother revenges herself on her son (WCRPa)
Q 241 Adultery punished (WCRPa)
Q 433.1 Imprisonment for adultery (WCRPa)
R 41.2 Captivity in tower (WCRPa)
S 12.1.1 Treacherous mother and paramour plan son’s death (WCRPa)
T 230.0.1 (Bm) Faithless wife (WCRPa)
T 245 Husband [wife] unfaithful even in wedding night (WCRPa)
T 257.12 (Bm) Jealous husband confines wife to tower (WCRPa)
T 381.0.2 Wife imprisoned in tower (house) to preserve chastity (WCRPa)
T 475 Unknown (clandestine) paramour (WCRPa)
T 481 Adultery (WCRPa)
T 481.6.1 (Bm) Queen begets son with magician while king is away (WCRPa)

Ysope    

F 575.1 Remarkably beautiful woman (Wiga)
H 1224 Quest to distant king for military aid (Wiga)
Q 114 Gifts as reward (Wiga)

Ywan    

N 839 (Bm) Noble [vassal, knight] as helper (WCRPa)